Synopses & Reviews
Review
"More and more people in the past few years have begun to view the Holocaust as simply another atrocity of World War II, like the bombing of Dresden. Bauer, however, maintains that the Holocaust is unique, and this collection of four essays is
an interesting and forceful statement on the origins and ramifications of the Holocaust. Bauer, an historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is—as one would expect—deeply disturbed at the attempts to belittle the extent of the Holocaust, but that unfortunately leads him into seeing the world as either pro-Jewish or anti-Jewish. An example of this myopia is his statement that 'the only non-Aryan was the Jew.' Clearly, there is much 'gray' in between." Reviewed by Robert Jackson, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)